Common and Proper Nouns
~Common and Proper Nouns
Nouns name people, places, ideas and things. Every noun can further be classified as
common or proper. A proper noun has two distinctive features: 1) it will name a specific [usually a one-of-a-kind] item, and 2) it will begin with a capital letter no matter where it occurs in a sentence.
Common
A common noun names a general person, place, thing, or idea. Common nouns do not name a specific person, place, thing or idea. Common nouns are not capitalized unless they are at the beginning of a sentence or part of a title.
These nouns are not capitalized.
building, holiday
Proper
Names a specific person, place, thing, or idea. These nouns are always capitalized.Proper nouns are capitalized so the reader can tell them apart from common nouns. For example:
The Empire State Building, Labor Day
Common Noun Proper Noun
teacher Mrs Lorber
author J.K. Rowling
cookie Oreo
amusement park Six Flags Over Georgia
Read the following sentence. Notice the difference between the common and proper nouns.
Tina offered Antonio one of her mother's homemade oatmeal cookies but only an Oreo would satisfy his sweet tooth.
cookies = common noun; Oreo = proper noun.
Check out these websites:
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/propernoun.htm
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/commonnoun.htm
http://www.mcwdn.org/grammar/nouncomprop.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rIJ9w4UVJM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfkHRgqCn0M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CjiD8Vc-F_8
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/basketball/index_pre.html
http://www.ricecookerstudios.com/assets/animation/anim00A.swf
http://www.brainpopjr.com/readingandwriting/sentence/capitalandlowercase/scrollingbackground/
Nouns name people, places, ideas and things. Every noun can further be classified as
common or proper. A proper noun has two distinctive features: 1) it will name a specific [usually a one-of-a-kind] item, and 2) it will begin with a capital letter no matter where it occurs in a sentence.
Common
A common noun names a general person, place, thing, or idea. Common nouns do not name a specific person, place, thing or idea. Common nouns are not capitalized unless they are at the beginning of a sentence or part of a title.
These nouns are not capitalized.
building, holiday
Proper
Names a specific person, place, thing, or idea. These nouns are always capitalized.Proper nouns are capitalized so the reader can tell them apart from common nouns. For example:
The Empire State Building, Labor Day
Common Noun Proper Noun
teacher Mrs Lorber
author J.K. Rowling
cookie Oreo
amusement park Six Flags Over Georgia
Read the following sentence. Notice the difference between the common and proper nouns.
Tina offered Antonio one of her mother's homemade oatmeal cookies but only an Oreo would satisfy his sweet tooth.
cookies = common noun; Oreo = proper noun.
Check out these websites:
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/propernoun.htm
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/commonnoun.htm
http://www.mcwdn.org/grammar/nouncomprop.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rIJ9w4UVJM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfkHRgqCn0M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CjiD8Vc-F_8
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/basketball/index_pre.html
http://www.ricecookerstudios.com/assets/animation/anim00A.swf
http://www.brainpopjr.com/readingandwriting/sentence/capitalandlowercase/scrollingbackground/